【正文】 rds. Make sure they know the meaning of each word. Then ask them to do activity 1. Help students match the words with the symbols. Step II Listening In this procedure, ask students to listen to the tape and check the correct information in the table. If the information is wrong, correct it. T: If we want to know weather information, we may listen to weather forecast. Please listen to a forecast and check the correct information in the table. Play the tape. Then check the answers with students. Ask students to listen to the dialogue in activity 4. T: Spring Festival is ing. Do you want to see friends at Spring Festival? Of course we do. So it is very important to listen to the weather forecast during the Spring Festival. Tony is going to England during the Spring festival. What will be the weather like? Now listen and find out. Ask students to listen to the tape and then fill in the blanks in activity 5. Check the answers. Step III Reading In this procedure, ask students to read the dialogue and do activity 6 as a petition to see if the sentences are true or false. T: Read the dialogue again and do activity 6. Check if they are true or false. Let’s have a petition between boys and girls. If you stand up and correct the question correctly first, you will get a star. Those who get more stars will be the winner. Sample: S1: It’s always cold and wet in February in England. S2: True. S1: It’s often freezing in February in England. S2: False. It may not be cold, just wet. And it might be windy in England. … Step IV Pronunciation and speaking In this procedure, ask students to listen to the tape and help students find out the different connotation of different of intonation. After listening, ask students to read these sentences loudly and then decide if the speaker is asking a question or showing surprise. Check the answers. Speaking Ask students to work in pairs and give a forecast for China according to activity 2. T: In this lesson, we have learnt many different types of weather. We can use some words to describe the weather. Let’s report a weather forecast for China according to activity 2. Now work in pairs and make a weather forecast. We can use may, might, probably to describe something we are not very certain of. Ask some pairs to show their report before the class. One sample version: Tomorrow may be sunny. It may be rainy next week. It might be very cold next month. Step V Homework 1. Ask the students to learn and remember the new words and expressions of this unit. 2. Ask the students to finish activities 1—3 on page 152. Period 2 Reading and writing Target language 目標語言 1. Words amp。 B. 5. She might like to buy a railcard to travel around the rest of the country. Sample answers to activity 13: Sally Marks starts the message by “Dear …” and finish the message by “Yours truly” and her name and working place. Sample message: Dear Susan, It’s good to hear that you my want to visit China. The best time to visit china is during spring season (March to May) and autumn season (September to November). Normally, the most fortable season of the year is early autumn (September to early October). During that period, temperatures are reasonable throughout China (about 5072F) with a limited amount of rain. September for example is the only month in the year when the ancient and valuable paintings of the Beijing Palace Museum are displayed due to proper climate conditions (low humidity and proper temperature). Spring can also be delightful with the average temperatures nearly the same as in autumn (about 5072F). Summer (from June to the end of August) can be very hot with temperatures well above 72F, especially in the famous 39。t find my watch. It may be in your bag. 我找不到我的手表了 ,它可能在你的包里。t tell the whole story. Humidity is a huge factor as well. The drier the heat the less you will feel it. Less humidity and cloud cover also means that heat is not retained at night. You can have very hot days but the nights are still pleasantly cool. Very hot in Alice Springs feels a lot better than somewhat hot in Darwin. Always look at temperature and humidity, like this map does. Having said that, the driving distances in Outback Australia are huge and if you are driving you will spend a lot of time in your vehicle. If you want to drive through Outback Australia in summer do yourself a favour and make sure the car has air conditioning. I3